Does this do the sort of thing that you want?
Dynamic[NumberForm[Clock[], {5, 2}]]
Stephen Luttrell
West Malvern, UK
"David Park" <djmpark at comcast.net> wrote in message
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> But suppose one has a single number that is displayed dynamically and one
> doesn't want it to jump around with successive displays in time? That is
> the
> situation I have.
>
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> David Park
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>
> "Albert Retey" <awnl at arcor.net> wrote in message
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>> Kevin J. McCann wrote:
>>> Carl,
>>>
>>> If you raise Pi to zero or a negative power of ten, your last form below
>>> does not work correctly, i.e. N[Pi]10^-1 produces 0.31x10.
>>>
>>> I agree with David that it would be REALLY nice if WRI made it easier
>>> for us to produce nice columnar data. I know it is not easy, as the
>>> examples below show. I know from my FORTRAN days that a lot of CPU
>>> cycles were used on formatted input and output. Still, it would be nice.
>>
>> Isn't this better addressed with using Grid and an explicit setting for
>> Alignment? The following gives me something that looks good enough for
>> me:
>>
>> Style[
>> Grid[{
>> {NumberForm[1000*N@Pi, {5, 2}]},
>> {NumberForm[N@Pi, {5, 2}]},
>> {NumberForm[N[Pi] 10^-1, {5, 2}]}
>> },
>> Alignment -> {"."}
>> ],
>> FontFamily -> "Helvetica"
>> ]
>>
>> albert
>>
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